Yesterday, 1015-06-24, Nutanix released new major (yes it’s a major version even though it’s defined as a typical dot release) versions of AOS (7.3), Prism Central (7.3) and AHV (10.3)
A lot of new end enhanced features with these releases:
- Prism Central Backup and Restore on Nutanix Objects
- RPO 1-24 hours
- Multicluster Virtual Switches in Prism Central
- Template Placement Policies
- Enhancements in Network Settings of Recovery Plan
- Support of 185 TB Capacity in All-Flash Node for Asynchronous Replication with 1-6h RPO
- Support of 370 TB Capacity in All-Flash Node for Asynchronous Replication with min 24 Hours RPO
- Support for Accessing a Volume Group using NVMeoF/TCP via external client.
- Node-Level Support for Centralized Password Management for AHV Accounts
- Enhanced Controller VM (CVM) Security so internal CVM processes can’t access user data
- Support for LUKS-Based Encryption of AOS and AHV Configuration Data – enabled and configured during Cluster creation or during individual Node foundation process.
- Nutanix Disaster Recovery now supports data-at-rest encryption of the data protected with asynchronous replication on the recovery cluster when enabled through entity-based storage policies
- On-Wire Encryption of Replication Traffic – Enabled by default.
- Enabled Support for Terminal Multiplexer
- Enabled Protection of vTPM-Enabled VMs in PD-Based DR with Asynchronous Replication Schedule
- Support for AHV Metro in Multisite Deployments
- iSER Support for Mellanox CX7 200G NIC on NX G9 Platforms
- SR-IOV + SR-IOV NIC Profile
- Network Offload + Profile
- CCLM and OD-CCLM Support for Guest VMs Connected to an Open Virtualized Network (OVN) LAN
- Support for RHEL High-availability Pacemaker Clusters
- Bulk Delete and Recovery Point Management
- Nutanix Witness Service: Enhanced UI, Upgrade Mechanism, and Support for ESXi
- MST 8Multi cloud snapshot) on NC2 Azure
- Service Account Management using Prism Central
In addition there are bug fixes for the following components:
- AHV Host
- AHV Management
- Alerts
- API Infrastructure
- Cluster Conversion
- Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
- Data Replication and Protection
- Domain Manager
- Foundation
- Flow
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Infrastructure and Services
- Life Cycle Manager (LCM)
- Microservices Platform (MSP)
- Networking
- Prism Gateway
- Security-AOS
- Security-Dashboard
- Stargate
AHV will no longer be bundled with AOS so the software included in this AOS release are:
- AOS 7.3
- Foundation 5.9
- Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) 4.3
- Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) 5.2.0
- Life Cycle Manager (LCM) 3.2
As usual check Nutanix Software End Of Life document on a regular basis to keep you up to date.
Useful links
- AOS 7.3 Download
- AOS 7.3 Release Notes
- Prism Central 7.3 Download
- Prism Central 7.3 Release Notes
- AHV 10.3 Download
- AHC 10.3 Release Notes
- Upgrade Path
- Hypervisor json files
- Nutanix Compatibility Matrix
- Software Product Interoperability
Njoy the new version and its capabilities & congrats Nutanix to this release